famousringo on 08 April 2013
| kowenicki said: Why not just create one and stick it in Android for free? $1bn? |
Google isn't interested in buying software, Google wants to buy users. Building a messaging app for Android wouldn't really attract any more users. Google already either has those people or has already lost them to Amazon, Chinese companies, and soon Facebook.
WhatsApp has users, tons of them, on many platforms.
But messaging app users can be pretty fickle. I hear the $1 per year subscription has driven tons of users to Line already.
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